Easiest Way to Prepare Award-winning Zesty Lime Cake

Zesty Lime Cake.

You can cook Zesty Lime Cake using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Zesty Lime Cake

1. You need of Cake Batter.
2. It's 160 g of Caster sugar.
3. You need 200 g of Salted Butter.
4. It's 170 g of Self-Raising Flour.
5. It's 4 of Medium Eggs.
6. You need of Slash of vanilla.
7. You need 2 tsp of Baking Powder.
8. Prepare Pinch of Salt.
9. Prepare of Zest of 3 Limes.
10. You need of Juice of 1 Lime.
11. Prepare of Cream Cheese Frosting.
12. It's 200 g of Cream cheese.
13. Prepare 200 g of Double Cream.
14. Prepare 50 g of Icing Sugar (add to taste).
15. It's of Juice of 1 Lime.
16. Prepare of Zest of 2 Limes.
17. Prepare of Drizzle.
18. It's 200 g of Caster Sugar.
19. You need of Juice of 2 Limes.

Zesty Lime Cake instructions

1. 1. Start by preheating the oven to 190C/ fan 170C. Then line two 20cm sandwich tins with baking paper and put to one side..
2. In a large mixing bowl cream the butter and sugar together using a spatula or wooden spoon..
3. 3. Now add two eggs, mix to combine and then sieve half the flour also mixing to combine. Repeat this once more..
4. 4. Add the baking powder, vanilla, milk, lime zest and juice to complete the sponge batter..
5. 5. Divide the mixture into the two tins and place on the same tray in oven for 20 minutes. You’ll know it is done when you stick a cocktail stick in the middle and it comes out clean..
6. 6. Once the sponges have cooled to room temperature, whip the double cream to soft peaks and add the cream cheese, icing sugar, lime zest and juice. Spread the soft cheese mixture across one of the sponges and place the second sponge on top..
7. 7. Combine the caster sugar and lime juice and drizzle over the top of the cake. Feel free to add more zest to the top of the cake to finish the cake..